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Quotes from Ecclesiastes make their way into all sorts of cool "pop culture."I've read that Hemingway was trying to find another Ecclesiastes quote (after The Sun Also Rises) to be the title of what became Men Without Women but decided that every possible quote had already been taken.
To us few that do organize, how do you go about doing it?Agree with sorting chronologically by release date within each band's section, each band in turn organized alphabetically. It's the only way that makes sense to me. I do prefer a separate V/A section at the end of the alphabet, though.
I alphabetize by band name - I put comps generally in their name (meaning Back from the Grave is in the Bs, for example), as opposed to in V/A. Within each band, I then sort them by release date, oldest to most recent as opposed to alpha.
I feel like since Bulgakov is regarded as one of the greats of Russian writing (and I wonder if that's something more applied to him by the west? from what I understand Solzhenitsyn is not very highly regarded in the former USSR, although Gulag Archipelago is one of the most important pieces of journalism I've ever read and also contains some of the most beautiful poetry I've come across as well.) that I owe it to myself to read him to help further my understanding of Russian culture.I think Bulgakov, and especially Master and Margarita, has a lot of appeal in the West because of the fantastic element. I'm in college now and know quite a few people who have very little knowledge of the greats of Russian literature like Dostoevsky, Gogol, etc., and have taken classes on Master and Margarita and Russian Sci-Fi because of the fantasy appeal. But from what I understand, he's just as highly regarded (probably more so) in Russia than here. There are walking tours of all the places mentioned in M&M, etc. I've read reviews of Bulgakov's books on Amazon from Russian readers basically saying "Americans can't understand/appreciate this book the way we do."
After that I started up on Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. Wrote a paper freshman year comparing and contrasting it with Master and Margarita. That class was highly influential on my reading tastes, not that I realized it at the time. It was an English 102 class, but all we covered was Eastern European/Russian satire. Those books are still some of my favorites.Love both those books. Just found an anthology called The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire by Bulgakov and a bunch of other contemporaries I've not read yet. Have you read The White Guard or A Dead Man's Memoir? The uncensored version of White Guard was just published in English for the first time, and I think Dead Man was just published in English as well. I haven't read either but have been itching too.
In the interview, it's the sound of a chicken or rooster...somethin like kick-ki-la-ki....it's not nickel arcade or anything like that.Holy shit, I always thought it sounded kinda like ki-ki-ri-ki (how German transcribes cockadoodledoo) but didn't think that was really it. Weird. Guess it makes sense, the Belgians speak German.
just nonsense
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